{"id":545,"date":"2005-03-09T17:31:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-09T17:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/2005\/03\/quizmasterly-tips\/"},"modified":"2005-03-09T17:31:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-09T17:31:00","slug":"quizmasterly-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/2005\/03\/quizmasterly-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Quizmasterly Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>How Not To Be A Jerk When Conducting A Quiz, part 1<\/b>: When you are doing the prelims on powerpoint, NUMBER the bloomin&#8217; slides. Otherwise, when someone asks you in the middle of the round &#8211; &#8220;Was that question 19 or 20?&#8221; and you find yourself fumbling for an answer, much Egg shall drip from your face. Especially when the marauding masses ask the same thing every two minutes (with varying question-numbers).<\/p>\n<p><b>How Not To Be a Jerk When Conducting a Quiz, part 2<\/b>:  Have a test slide before the powerpoint show with embedded audio and video clips in it, and play them before the quiz begins. That way, you will know, when you click on a slide and find out that the bloomin&#8217; audio clip does <i>not<\/i> play, whether the problem lies with the audio cable, or your moronic miscopying of the folders from the CD. And you will have an idea of the volume levels. <\/p>\n<p><b>How Not To Be a Jerk After the Quiz is Over, part 1<\/b>: REMEMBER THE QUESTIONS YOU ASKED, DIMWIT!!!!! Not just the answers, THE QUESTIONS. Because there <i>might<\/i> be a chance that the quizmaster the next day might ask a semi-mutilated version of the SAME QUESTION YOU ASKED yesterday, and you might be the only person in the auditorium not writing down the correct answer. Faugh!<\/p>\n<p>p.s: Remember my experiences <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/beatzo\/42764.html\">about asking a question onstage and then forgetting the answer<\/a>? At least <i>that<\/i> didn&#8217;t happen this time. Whew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Not To Be A Jerk When Conducting A Quiz, part 1: When you are doing the prelims on powerpoint, NUMBER the bloomin&#8217; slides. Otherwise, when someone asks you in the middle of the round &#8211; &#8220;Was that question 19 or 20?&#8221; and you find yourself fumbling for an answer, much Egg shall drip from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[105,104],"class_list":["post-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-faxoflife","tag-quiz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}